On March 8, he tweeted out “Ah. Peace and quiet.#ADayWithoutAWoman” and was met with immediate backlash from fans and former colleagues.

IGN Executive Editor Justin Davis replied to the tweet asking “Is this really the person you want to be?”. He later unfollowed Moriarty adding “Prob should have long ago. Disappointed to see someone with smarts be a low-road troll.”

In addition, IGN Entertainment Editor Lucy O'Brien responded saying, “Colin, I respect you, and I know this was a joke. But it's a bad one, and worse, it's not *you*.”

Moriarty announced his resignation on Facebook today saying, “This morning, the guys and I had a constructive conversation, and feel that, with our separate visions for the future and for the direction of the company, it’s time to go our separate ways. I want to be clear that this was my decision. Just as we collaborated as friends, so too do we part. I hope you continue to support them. I simply want to reconnect with what’s most important to me. Politics, history, philosophy. Reading books. Talking about things I feel are most impactful and essential for a person like me.”

He later added, “Opportunities are already popping up for me, bringing me in a new, different, and exciting direction, a direction that I feel makes perfect sense for me. Obviously, you haven’t seen or heard the last of me.”

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Is this just me or, that very same joke is done “the other way round” by a million women, daily, and nobody cares… I mean, its not like an half shaved skull / purple dyed hair / heavily pierced face / Ramones T-shirt wearing “cool” gender fluid “podcaster” could not have said the same about #ADayWithoutMen… To say that I’m fed up with that PC/millenial/ethno-masochistic/anti-patriarchy stew would be only the very start of a euphemism…